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The Hyde Collection has teamed up with more than forty area arts and community organizations to present seventy Degas-related events through November, 2009.

Visit http://www.hydecollection.org/ for more information or contact our individual partners concerning their unique contribution to the Season of Degas.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Season Events in August

August 1-October 31 - Union College Visual Arts Department's Degas' Contemporaries Exhibition including 11 prints by the French artist's peers. Displayed in Schaffer Library's Lally Reading Room. FREE

August 1 & 2 @ 10 a.m.-5 p.m. - The Shirt Factory's Artists' Open House. Visit artists' studios to view Degas-inspired works. FREE

August 1 @ 8 p.m. - Seagle Music Colony's La Cenerentola. Gioachino Rossini's comic opera based on the fairy-tale of Cinderella will leave you laughing as well as humming one of the many beautiful melodies. Performance at the Oscar Seagle Memorial Theatre.

August 5 @ 6 p.m. - Art & Opera Open Studio. Artists invited to sketch during rehearsal at The Hubbard Hall Opera Theater. FREE

August 7 @ 5 p.m. - The Hyde Collection and Saratoga Performance Arts Center's Degas Among Friends. Pianist Jean-Frederic Neuberger, Chantal Juillet on the violin, and The Wister Quartet followed by a reception with the performers. Helen Froehlich Auditorium.

August 7 @ 7 p.m. - The Hubbard Hall Opera Theater's Carmen Jones. A 1954 semi-experimental adaptation of Bizet's opera, Carmen, Starring Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte. Set on a Southern military base during WWII, this version features lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a dynamic African-American cast. Show at Freight Depot Theater. FREE

August 9 @ 2 p.m. - The Hyde Collection's Lecture Series, Music and the Impressionists by Michael Cassin, Director of Education, Center for the Visual Arts, The Clark. To compliment the work of Edgar Degas, Michael Cassin will explore the subject of music as a muse to other artists associated with the Impressionist movement. Helen Froehlich Auditorium. FREE

August 10 @ 8 p.m. - Saratoga Performing Arts Center's Degas Among Friends. Pianist Jean-Frederic Neuberger, Chantal Juillet on the violin, and The Wister Quartet. Spa Little Theater.

August 14 @ 5-7 p.m. - Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council's In the Spirit of Degas Exhibit and Opening Reception. Exhibit runs through October 4 in Lapham Gallery. FREE

August 14 @ 8 p.m. - The Hubbard Hall Opera Theater's La Tragedie de Carmen. This re-working of Bizet's masterpiece hones our focus on a more intimate and no-frills tale as the tragedy of seduction, jealousy, lost freedom and lost love unravels and delivers a spicy and compact punch. Hubbard Hall.

August 15 @ 10:30-11:30 a.m. - Children's Story Time and Crafts at Red Fox Books. FREE

August 15 @ 6:30 p.m. - Sembrich Opera Museum's Music for Winds and Piano. Luzerne Chamber Players at The Hyde Collection.

August 15 @ 8 p.m. - Saratoga Performing Arts Center's An Evening with Degas. The Philadelphia Orchestra performs at the SPAC Amphitheatre.

August 20 @ 5-8 p.m. - Third Thursday Art Walk. Discover established and up and coming local artists at various locations throughout Downtown Glens Falls. Maps of participating locations are available. Email glensfallsartwalk@yahoo.com for more information. FREE

August 20 @ 6 p.m. - The Hyde Collection's The Hydes, Degas, and Music, presented by The Hyde's Chief Curator and Deputy Director Erin Coe. The presentation will explore the history of the works by Edgar Degas that were collected by Museum founders Louis and Charlotte Hyde and the Hyde's musical associations with these works. FREE

August 20 & 21 @ 8 p.m. - The Hubbard Hall Opera Theater's La Tragedie de Carmen. This version hones our focus on a more intimate and no-frills tale as the tragedy of seduction, jealousy, lost freedom and lost love unravels and delivers a spicy and compact punch which can serve as a warning to anyone who has ever wanted everything in life and risked it all.

August 22 @ 7:30 p.m. - Sembrich Opera Museum's From the Paris Opera. A program of arias and duets with Phoebe Fennell, soprano, Eric Fennell, tenor and Michael Fennelly, piano at The Hyde Collection.

August 23 @ 2 p.m. - The Hubbard Hall Opera Theater's La Tragedie de Carmen.

August 26 @5 p.m. - Adirondack Community College's Degas and the Culture of His Day. A program of poetry and music featuring faculty of ACC. Four professors from the college will weave the work of four French poets with works of art by Degas and music by their composer friends.

August 28 @ 7:30 p.m. - Cradle to Crone Production's Degas: His Love, His Women, His Art. A cabaret about the light, the dark, the realist, the Impressionist.

August 29 @ 7:30 p.m. - Phantom of the Opera with organ music. Presented by Sembrich Opera Museum at The Hyde Collection.

August 30 @ 1-3 p.m. - The Hyde Collection's Discovery Day: Degas & Music. Tour followed by children's art-making session.